US Pressures Brazil To Use Armed Forces In Venezuela Relief Operation
Brazil's Defense Department fears that the situation might evolve to open conflict and ruled out allowing American forces in Brazilian territory
Feb.21.2019 2:47PM
Igor Gielow
Patrícia Campos Mello
SÃO PAULO
The United States wants Brazil to use its Armed Forces in its Venezuelan relief operation, but the Brazilian Defense Department is resisting the proposal out of fear that the situation at the border evolves to open conflict and also ruled out allowing American forces into Roraima to help the aid efforts.
The relief operation is one of the ways the United States and allies are trying to pressure Venezuela into ousting president Nicolás Maduro. Opposition leader Juan Guiadó, considered by both Brazil and the US as the legitimate interim president, requested food and supplies to be available at the Brazil and Venezuela border next Saturday (23rd).
Colombia has around 1,000 US troops and has already started to set up a distribution center near Cúcuta, a town at the border with Venezuela. There, American soldiers are working freely, but Maduro blocked the bridge connecting the two countries to the transportation of food and medications. There is already fear of confrontations between military forces on both sides.
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Sources told Folha that the US State Department was certain that Brazil would allow American troops in Roraima, given the first exchanges it had with Foreign Affairs Minister Ernesto Araújo - a self-declared Trump fan.
More:
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/world/2019/02/us-pressures-brazil-to-use-armed-forces-in-venezuela-relief-operation.shtml
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